Norwich No. 24 / Norwic

Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 16
design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 09429NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul [demolished in 1970]
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: [location of demolished church: Grid Reference:TG 2331 0935]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: the demolished church was located in the present St Paul's Square, off Barrack Street
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938.
Church Notes: church badly damaged by incendiary bombs in June 1942; remained a ruin until its demolition in 1970
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are ten entries for Norwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2308/norwich/] [accessed 13 October 2020], one of which records "22.7 churches. 2.57 church lands" in it; a separate entry records a priest and a church in it. Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides between two roll mouldings, each panel decorated with a large framed quatrefoil window; the chamfer is plain; each panel of the octagonal stem of the base is decorated with a double cinquefoil arch and a tiny quatrefoil motif between the tips of the arches. Plain octagonal plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384621 5833144
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal